I've been at NESTA a few weeks now and I'm going to be doing a regular update on some of the interesting projects I've been seeing, ideas I've been stumbling across and issues we've encountered.
The video games industry is changing rapidly. Established studios are going to the wall and new players, focusing on social and mobile, are getting in on the action. Read on to find out how the landscape is changing, and the challenges that lie ahead for the UK games industry.
The Open Public Services White Paper aims to 'encourage innovation and give people more choice and control over the services they use by putting power directly in the hands of millions of families and thousands of communities'.
This week I visited a learning experience that The Philosophy Shop are delivering on idiscover.
It is important to remember that the journey from idea to start up to venture backing is just the first part of the adventure. The key issue is then scaling the business and really growing shareholder value. In his guest blog, Chris Winstanley the VP Marketing at Basekit talks about that challenge.
A brilliant scheme that has transformed the education system in New York has shown how a disciplined approach to innovation can reap huge rewards
There is a compelling argument to unlock more data to improve our lives, but we need to keep the dream of technology in perspective.
Matthew Slater looks at the projects represented at the recent unconference on the complementary currency software developers sector
It was great to see the Neighbourhood Challenge projects taking part in the Manchester workshop we held last week.
NESTA is interested in supporting timebanking, complementary currencies and various newer ideas around the sharing economy, seeing them as platforms for civic engagement and reciprocity in civil society.
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